Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2005-2270
Firefox before 1.0.5 and Mozilla before 1.7.9 does not properly clone base objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by navigating the prototype chain to reach a privileged object.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.060 (93.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.060 · newest: 0.060 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
- Mozilla — versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1
References
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-810 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11751 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-56.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-252.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:550 (signature, vdb-entry)